Hello again;
Reporting another quirk.. following our email exchange I went and got another Nvidia card from the store, which was listed as supported.

I pulled the GE force 630 and put in the GE 210.
Rebooted the system and no miracles happened. Still no X and no gnome desktop. So I decided to delete 004 system image, and revert to previous /003 image, and then reinstall 004.
To my surprise after the installation it reported all services present, even if I specifically deleted the system image from the booting menu.

I checked the root filesystem to do the deletion manually, but couldn't figure out where 004 was taking that information from. So I started deleting them one by one from zfsguru web menu. In fact I stopped after deleting all those which had to do/or asked for X and Gnome, and nvidia driver. But soon I discovered that those left behind were not functional, so that eventually i had to uninstall all of the add-ons, and start re-installing them again.

The end of this whole time consuming exercise is not successful. The desktop enviroment doesn't start, regardless.
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